Don’t miss this week’s episode of “New York Now,” the award-winning coproduction of WMHT and the Times Union. This week’s highlights: Matt Ryan of WMHT runs down the week’s headlines, with extensive footage from Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s first Capitol Q&A since May. Karen DeWitt of New York State Public Radio talks to Bill Hammond of …

A Time Warner News/Siena College Research Institute poll released tonight finds Democratic Rep. Sean Maloney leading former Republican Rep. Nan Hayworth 49-44 percent. That’s little changed from the 50-42 percent lead Maloney had six weeks ago in an earlier Time Warner/Siena poll. The October 24-27 telephone survey of 682 likely… ?
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Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and his Republican opponent John Cahill battled in a heated debate tonight just days before voters held to the polls. The candidates often talked over each other, jawing over how to root out corruption in state government and how to keep the office clear of political… ?
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The head of the Putnam County Republican Committee is asking state Board of Election Enforcement Counsel Risa Sugarman to probe whether Democrats were improperly using a county committee to skirt campaign donation limits in several key Senate races. In… …

The state Democratic Party is writing to registered Democrats telling them that unnamed organizations are monitoring their neighborhood’s election turnout and the party will want an explanation if they don’t cast a ballot. Senate Democratic Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins sidestepped questions about whether NYSUT’s battered woman to knock Republicans was inappropriate. A day after appearing in… …

State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, who has voiced reservations about hydrofracking, has received more than $100,000 from a billionaire Leonard Blavatnik and his company Access Industries Holdings LLC have donated $140,000 to Schneiderman’s campa… …

Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s campaign is boosting its efforts to snag votes on the Women’s Equality Party ballot line, airing a new television advertisement in hopes of getting permanent ballot status for the next four years. The 30-second ad will begin airing Friday through Tuesday, Election Day. It was released the… ?
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